Mr. Lansbury, the editor of the Daily Herald, denied that
the people who were running the Third International had declared that each country must wade through blood to accomplish the revolution. He had put the point to Lenin : " Are we in England necessarily to scrap our consti- tutional machinery, our trade union, co-operative, municipal machinery, and say that we will have nothing to do with any- thing except violence and revolution ? " And Lenin had replied : " I do not believe you can do it your way, but if you can, well, do it." After further discussion the closure was applied, and a majority of 2,715,000 voted against joining the Third International. We are pleased, but not in the least surprised. Though we have often been severe critics of Trade Unionism, we have the strong respect for and belief in the good sense as well as patriotism of the English working man.
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